Joint Commission on economic, industrial, scientific and technological cooperation between Belarus and Czech

19 May 2016

19-05-2016

On May 19, 2016 Minsk hosted the 8th session of the Joint Commission on economic, industrial, scientific and technological cooperation between the Republic of Belarus and Czech Republic was held under the chairmanship of Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Belarus Evgeny Shestakov and Deputy Minister of Industries and Trade of the Czech Republic Jiří Koliba. The bilateral Business forum accompanied the session.

Minister of Industries and Trade of the Czech Republic Jan Mladek, who is paying a visit to Belarus on the 19th and 20th of May, took part in the session.

During the event the parties analyzed the current issues of the bilateral cooperation and specified new perspective directions of collaboration in the fields of energetics, transport, agriculture, forestry, science, technologies and standardization. Some questions on financial cooperation and legal framework improvement were discussed as well.

After the session the parties signed the Final Protocol, as well as the Memorandum on cooperation in the field of standardization, metrology and evaluation between the State Committee of Standardization of the Republic of Belarus and the Office on Technic Standardization and State Examinations of the Czech Republic.